“For weeks now, you’ve ignored us,” she said, her voice clear and steady, cutting through the high winds lashing Cecil County. Like Givens, the protesters had seen the video of a Black motorist and three White sheriff’s deputies near Elkton’s only CVS Pharmacy. “There are not indications of police misconduct or excessive force being pervasive at the Cecil County Sheriff’s Office,” Adams said in a statement. “And I don’t think they can take it.”The Black community was split over Givens and Cecil Solidarity. By the time he bumped into Cecil Solidarity activists giving out fliers in August, he had hired a lawyer to defend him.

Source: Washington Post March 31, 2021 10:52 UTC